Keep Your Eyes Ahead
by The Helio Sequence
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Jan 29, 2008
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Spin
    60
    Keep Your Eyes Ahead maintains a dense soundscape with electronic tinges, but adds a fresh, succinct tone, trimming songs to four minutes tops.
  2. Mojo
    60
    With Keep Your Eyes Ahead Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel have pushed their fringes out of the way to display a new focus. [Mar 2008, p.112]
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  3. Q Magazine
    60
    The Helio Sequence add lucioous electronic icing to their songs but too often this mearly masks predictable indie rock. [Mar 2008, p.104]
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  5. PopMatters
    60
    With each record that it makes, the Helio Sequence sounds less like a duo and more like a highly evolved studio project, its ping-ponging, wave-cresting pulses of staccato rhythm taking flight one refrain at a time.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    50
    Unfortunately, Keep Your Eyes Ahead, the pair's fourth album, suffers from multiple personality disorder.

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User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. CodyE.
    Mar 9, 2008
    10
    To all those that haven't checked this CD out, please do. It's absolutely amazing. In the process of checking out Love and Distance To all those that haven't checked this CD out, please do. It's absolutely amazing. In the process of checking out Love and Distance right now, which I hear is just as good.… Full Review »
  2. PB.
    Feb 19, 2008
    3
    this is music is like cotton candy. give me a proper follow-up to young Effectuals!
  3. SeanW.
    Feb 19, 2008
    9
    I never even heard of this band until a couple weeks ago. It took a few listens before it really hit me, but as I was giving song ratings in I never even heard of this band until a couple weeks ago. It took a few listens before it really hit me, but as I was giving song ratings in itunes, I kept giving every song 4 or 5 stars and I thought "Hey, this whole album is excellent." It gets better and better with repeated listenings, and it's caused me to go back and check out their earlier albums. It's really just beautiful, great music.… Full Review »
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